The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV.

Twitter lit up overnight with false reports that legendary entertainer Ruby Dee, and not Heavy D, had died yesterday. Jeffrey Leavitt, representative for the 87-year-old stage and screen star, corrected the false reports on Wednesday. Dee’s rumored death apparently resulted from confusion between her name and that of Heavy D, the popular rapper who died […]

Rap legend Heavy D — one of the most influential rappers of the ’90s — died earlier today … TMZ has learned. Heavy D — real name Dwight Arrington Myers — was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today … and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM. He was 44 years […]